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"Roses Are Red" is the name of a love poem and children's rhyme with Roud Folk Song Index number 19798.[1] It has become a cliché for Valentine's Day, and has spawned multiple humorous and parodic variants. A modern standard version is:[2]
Origins[edit]The rhyme builds on poetic conventions that are traceable as far back as Edmund Spenser's epic The Faerie Queene of 1590:
A rhyme similar to the modern standard version can be found in Gammer Gurton's Garland, a 1784 collection of English nursery rhymes published in London by Joseph Johnson:[4]
Victor Hugo was probably familiar with Spenser, but may not have known the English nursery rhyme when he published his novel Les Misérables in 1862. A song by the character Fantine contains this refrain:[6]
In his English translation published in the same year, Charles Edwin Wilbour rendered this as:[7]
This translation replaces the original version's cornflowers ("bleuets") with violets, and makes the roses red rather than pink, effectively making the song closer to the English nursery rhyme. Folklore[edit]The short poem has since become a snowclone, and numerous satirical versions have long circulated in children's lore.[8] Among them:
Country music singer Roger Miller parodied the poem in a verse of his 1964 hit "Dang Me":
The Marx Brothers' film Horse Feathers has Chico Marx describing the symptoms of cirrhosis thus:
The Benny Hill version:
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What is the saying Roses are red violets are blue?“Roses are red, violets are blue, the honey is sweet, and so are you.” This is a world-famous rhyme that resonates the beauty of romance. The poem brings vivid images of a lover giving red roses to his beloved. He considers his lover as sweet as honey which shows how much he cares for her.
What is the meaning of violets are blue?Violets are blue: Though we see violets used less frequently than roses in a valentine bouquet, they are forever associated with one another in these verses. Meanings of modesty, faithfulness, humility, and simplicity are embodied in the delicate violet, and it holds the answer to the bold statement of the red rose.
What kind of poem is Roses are red?"Roses Are Red" is the name of a love poem and children's rhyme with Roud Folk Song Index number 19798. It has become a cliché for Valentine's Day, and has spawned multiple humorous and parodic variants. And so are you.
How are the violet and the Rose different?Answer. Roses are red, violets are blue...." Hmm, well, so much for the accuracy of children's doggerel. It's true that you do get pink ones, and yellows, whites, and all kinds of in-between colors, but the archetypal color of a violet, as its name suggests, is violet.
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